The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire · ¶554

As soon as Diocletian and Maximian had resigned the purple, their station, according to the rules of the new constitution, was filled by the two Cæsars, Constantius and Galerius, who immediately assumed the title of Augustus.

Edward Gibbon · Project Gutenberg #731 (Milman edition) — public domain
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